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Perhaps boredom ,low self esteem and thrill seekers, No you not the different one your the lucky one , i can't count how many "friends  i lost to heroin at least the ones waiting in line for methadone are trying to seek help, what's worse ?

STUPIDITY

Had a major Heroin habit at 17. When I spent the money set aside for my sons leg braces I knew I had lost my humanity. I was lucky, I kicked.

I t like  [Daren 1 ] said , your the lucky one, I have known many drug adic. that now are in the grave.

I used to know two Vietnam Vets who both died in theire 50s from heroin abuse. . Its everywhere.  They need to go after the dealers more and secure our borders with Mexico. Thats where our drugs come from. I think Meth is the worst. Fresno, Cal. is the Meth capital in the US.

At least these people in the pharmacy waiting in line are getting help.. But why take drugs in the first place, when everyone knows how bad they are is beyond me..

every one should listen to neal young`s"The needle and the damage done"

Tommyh,  I would never have guessed what that line was for, either; it's a shock to realize how rampant that drug is in your community. 
Trying drugs, alcohol, tobacco, etc. is an individual's choice.  We call addiction an illness and do everything possible to help a person past it.  From personal experience with friends, family, and self, NO ONE can "cure" you of an addiction better than yourself.  
I'm optimistic, but cynical, too.  Had there been one line for methadone and another for heroin, which line do you think would have been longer? 
   

The sad thing about the methadone is, they never seem to reduce its dosage. Sometimes I find it hard to believe they can't safely devise a way to taper the addicts off from the drugs they are addicted to with mild sedatives. It makes me wonder just how much the doctors view the addicts as just a source of money in writing prescriptions for methadone.

I mean, stop and think about it. How are doctors able to induce a coma for patients to heal through the time they are in it, and then bring them out of it? How did heroin addicts ever kick their habits? I have known several former addicts, I find it hard to believe they can't do that.

Tommyh

Only in that Q are you the different one.